| NOUN | artifact | chess piece, chessman | any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game / game of chess |
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| Meaning | Any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game / game of chess. | |
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| Synonym | chessman | |
| Part of | chess set | checkerboard and a set of 32 pieces used to play chess |
| Narrower | bishop | (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color |
| castle, rook | (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard | |
| king | (chess) the weakest but the most important piece | |
| knight, horse | A chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse | |
| pawn | (chess) the least powerful piece | |
| queen | (chess) the most powerful piece | |
| Broader | man, piece | game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games |
| Spanish | pieza de ajedrez, pieza del ajedrez, trebejo | |
| Catalan | peça d'escacs, peces escacs | |
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